Are EVs Becoming Less Popular.

[Ashy]

on the weight question, as I have mentioned before the socking big battery -

The controversial mayor of Greater London has demanded that all London's buses shall be battery electric very soon*, so he'll be scrapping or cascading the hybrids and diesels with unbridled haste. A typical double deck battery electric bus weighs over 14 tons, compared to the trolleybus of yesteryear which had three axles and weighed 9 tons. I wonder if he has considered the risks to London's roads, and more importantly to London's buried services, the water mains, the gas mains, the cable ducts and the sewers?

*News today that this project will be creating hundreds of jobs, in China. At around £400,000 each bus they are a bit cheaper than the "Boris Bus" that was built in Ireland for £433,000 each. There are nearly 9,000 buses on London's roads.

[JBR]

The controversial mayor of Greater London has demanded that all London's buses shall be battery electric very soon*, so he'll be scrapping or cascading the hybrids and diesels with unbridled haste. A typical double deck battery electric bus weighs over 14 tons, compared to the trolleybus of yesteryear which had three axles and weighed 9 tons. I wonder if he has considered the risks to London's roads, and more importantly to London's buried services, the water mains, the gas mains, the cable ducts and the sewers?

*News today that this project will be creating hundreds of jobs, in China. At around £400,000 each bus they are a bit cheaper than the "Boris Bus" that was built in Ireland for £433,000 each. There are nearly 9,000 buses on London's roads.

All I can say is that I'm glad I don't live in Londonistan.

[GrannyMac]

My son in law has an EV, he runs a business, and the tax benefits were very attractive, but he wouldn't choose to have another.  

[JBR]

My son in law has an EV, he runs a business, and the tax benefits were very attractive, but he wouldn't choose to have another. 

Exactly.  The real reason for this, supposedly, marked increase in EV purchases is simply that the government, in its wisdom, has been bribing people to 'invest' in them.

I believe that when the hand-outs go, so will the interest in buying EVs!

[klondike]

The personal incentives stopped a while back. 

Wait til they bring in pay per mile to make up for lost fuel duty. Nobody will want them then.

[Diasi]

Technically if they are selling more than are being scrapped or exported, then EVs are becoming more popular. just that the initial enthusiasm for the product may have declined.

The problem is the figures, falsely, treat a car registration as a sale.

[Raven]

This made me chuckle.

[klondike]

There are 650 in Westminster that won't laugh. They simply won't understand it.